Secure Flight
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Secure Flight is an airline passenger screening program under development by the Transportation Security Administration. It compares passenger information from Passenger Name Records, containing information given by passengers when booking their flights, against watch lists maintained by the federal government. Deployment of Secure Flight has been delayed numerous times.
[edit] History
Secure Flight was introduced by TSA in August 2004 after the agency abandoned plans for its predecessor, the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II. CAPPS II would have examined government and commercial databases to assess the risk posed by passengers. CAPPS II was scheduled for a test run in the spring of 2003. Following a public outcry, Delta Air Lines refused to provide the data and the test run was delayed indefinitely. In the summer of 2004, CAPPS II was abandoned, in part due to privacy concerns.
TSA expects that Secure Flight will begin operational testing at the end of 2008 for domestic passenger vetting with full implementation in 2010. TSA is working with DHS to explore ways to efficiently accelerate the schedule to implement the program appropriately and within established lifecycle cost estimates.
